{"id":74696,"date":"2025-10-13T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74696\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:46:08","slug":"death-of-the-summer-job-a-rite-of-passage-slipping-out-of-teenagers-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74696\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the summer job: A rite of passage slipping out of teenagers\u2019 reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since February, university student Isabel Paul has applied for more than 60 part-time jobs, sat through three interviews and received just one offer \u2013 which was withdrawn hours later.<\/p>\n<p>With summer approaching and student loan payments ending, the 19-year-old animation student is now scrambling to find full-time work to cover rent for her Wellington flat and save for next year\u2019s studies.\u00a0Based on her experience so far, she\u2019s not optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center newspack-sign-in\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Already have an account? <a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access Newsroom Pro articles<\/p>\n<p>Bonus subscription for a friend or family member<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive subscriber-only emails <\/p>\n<p>Access to post and read comments on articles<\/p>\n<p>A daily morning email of news and insights curated by Newsroom Pro editorial team<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/newsroom-pro-subscription\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate subscriptions also available<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since February, university student Isabel Paul has applied for more than 60 part-time jobs, sat through three interviews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,1122,232,111,43,7439,139,69,8780],"class_list":["post-74696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}